Detectives responded to the 14400 block of Dinard Avenue about 5:30 p.m. to investigate the shooting of a 50-year-old man, sheriff’s officials said in a released statement. The man was shot and killed while walking down the street going door to door soliciting to paint addresses on curb-lines, officials said.

The man, who was shot several times in the upper torso, was pronounced dead at the scene.

A motive for the shooting was unknown.

No other information was released.

Anyone with information was asked to call the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500.